Tibet's Stolen Child

A well-intentioned but hopelessly unfocused treatment of a kidnapping that's become a flash point in the ongoing struggle between Tibet and the Chinese government. In 1989, Tibet's 10th Panchen Lama, second only to the Dalai Lama in rank, died suddenly and, some argue, under suspicious circumstances. The highest-ranking Buddhists of Tibet, who use a complex mystical system to identifying the newest incarnation of a deceased lama, set about locating the new Panchen Lama. In 1995, they found him in six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, from the small central Tibetan village of Lhar. But no sooner had the Dalai Lama (Tibet's secular and spiritual leader of Tibet, and the ...